The first plastic explosive was gelignite, invented by Alfred Nobel in 1875.

* July 23 – Henry Hallett Dale, English scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1875 )

** Thomas Mann, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1875 )

It was invented in 1875 by Alfred Nobel, who had earlier invented dynamite.

The fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen ( 1805 – 1875 ), the philosophical essays of Søren Kierkegaard ( 1813 – 1855 ), the short stories of Karen Blixen ( penname Isak Dinesen, ( 1885 – 1962 ), the plays of Ludvig Holberg ( 1684 – 1754 ), the modern authors such as Herman Bang and Nobel laureate Henrik Pontoppidan and the dense, aphoristic poetry of Piet Hein ( 1905 – 1996 ), have earned international recognition, as have the symphonies of Carl Nielsen ( 1865 – 1931 ).

* Albert Schweitzer ( 1875 – 1965 ), Nobel Prize 1952

The great fire in 1875 destroyed most of the city and was depicted by Nobel Laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz in his novel Quo Vadis as the great fire of Rome.

Thomas Mann ( 1875 – 1955 ) was a German author, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate.

The Franco-German Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Schweitzer ( 1875 – 1965 ) founded his world-renowned Hospital in Lambaréné in 1913.

* Thomas Mann ( 1875 – 1955 ), German novelist, essayist, Nobel Prize laureate

A contra-rotating steam turbine, usually known as the Ljungström turbine, was originally invented by Swedish Engineer Fredrik Ljungström ( 1875 – 1964 ) in Stockholm, and in partnership with his brother Birger Ljungström he obtained a patent in 1894.

His best known works include the trilogy about the long 19th century ( The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789 – 1848, The Age of Capital: 1848 – 1875 and The Age of Empire: 1875 – 1914 ), The Age of Extremes on the short 20th century and an edited volume which introduced the influential idea of ' invented traditions '.

In 1875 Thaddeus S. C. Lowe invented the carburetted water gas process.

Milk chocolate was invented in Vevey by Daniel Peter in 1875.

In response, Polly invented a fictitious obligation in Greenwich that would last at least half a year, and obtained a room in a boarding house where she lived by her meagre savings through until Edgar's birth on 1 April 1875.

* 1875 – William Crookes invented the Crookes tube and studied cathode rays

It was not until 1875, that Henry Parmelee invented a sprinkler head that only activated one at a time, and that is when sprinkler systems became very popular.

* Max Buchholz ( 1875 – 1956 ), engineer ( who invented the Buchholz relay )

Polly had invented an obligation in London to hide her pregnancy and give birth in secret on 1 April 1875, almost a month after Richard and Jenny married.

School legend has it that Baseball's catcher's mask was invented in 1875 by a St. Marks School catcher.

A game which modern audiences would more readily recognize as American football occurred six years after the first ever game and occurred between Harvard University and Tufts University on June 4, 1875.

However, more recent decisions, such as Weldon v. Missouri ( 1875 ), had curtailed the power of the states to tax or license out-of-state products or sales agents.

A more ambitious project was Nordisk familjebok, established in 1875 and intended to comprise 6 volumes.

Even more significant in terms of effect were private militias, paramilitary organizations that formed starting in 1874, including the White League in Louisiana, which quickly formed chapters in other states ; the Red Shirts in Mississippi in 1875, and with force in South Carolina and North Carolina ; as well as other " White Line " militias and rifle clubs.

There are some rare variations of keyboards with more or fewer than 12 keys per octave, mostly used in microtonal music, after the discoveries and theoretical developments of musician and inventor Julián Carrillo ( 1875 – 1965 ).

It has been in practice in all Australian states and in New Zealand since between 1858 and 1875, has more recently been extended to strata title, and has been adopted by many states, provinces and countries, and in modified form in 9 states of the USA.

Dyeing of wools, silks, and cottons was the necessary preliminary to what he had much at heart, the production of woven and printed fabrics of the highest excellence ; and the period of incessant work at the dye-vat ( 1875 – 76 ) was followed by a period during which he was absorbed in the production of textiles ( 1877 – 78 ), and more especially in the revival of carpet-weaving as a fine art.

Figures are not available for all countries, but Britain alone imported more than 80, 000 tons in 1875.

And one of the last great mimes of the century, Georges Wague ( 1875 – 1965 ), though he began his career in Pierrot's costume, ultimately dismissed Baptiste's work as puerile and embryonic, averring that it was time for Pierrot's demise in order to make way for " characters less conventional, more human.

He travelled for more than a year in Central America on a photographic expedition in 1875.

The cabaret was more than twenty years old when, in 1875, the artist Andre Gill painted the sign that was to suggest its permanent name.

By 1875 he had set up his own studios in Bath and Bristol, and later expanded his business with two more studios in London and Brighton.

" Boito withdrew the opera from further performances to rework it, and it had a more successful second premiere, in Bologna on 10 April 1875.

However, Chapel Hill suffered the loss of more of its population during the war than any village in the South, and when student numbers did not recover, the university was forced to close during Reconstruction from December 1, 1870 until September 6, 1875.

In 1875 the land they purchased was designated the Osage Reservation and, because the tribe owned the land directly, they retained more control over their affairs than did tribes who only had rights to land held " in trust " by the United States government.

Subsequent Salons des Refusés were mounted in Paris in 1874, 1875, and 1886, by which time the popularity of the Paris Salon had declined for those who were more interested in Impressionism, this was not the case for the artist Manet who still wanted to be acclaimed by the original Salon, looking for permanence and nobility like many other traditionalists.

The area that is now lower Oak Creek was more or less on the border of the area occupied by the Dil-ze ' e Chein-chii-ii ( or Red Rock Clan ) and Yaa-go-gain ( White Land Clan ) The US army gathered the Yavapai and Apache people in the area and in 1875 removed them in a tragic and brutal march and exile to the San Carlos Reservation in Eastern Arizona, but many Dilze ' e remained in hiding in the Lower Oak Creek and adjoining White Hills area As late as 1876, numerous Dil-ze ' e still lived on or near Lower Oak Creek.

The first edition was copyrighted in 1875 ( Eddy, 1934: p. ii ) and went through more than four hundred revisions ( Brosang, 1990: p. 6 ) before Eddy's death in 1910.

Upon the completion of a railroad junction in 1875, the town grew more rapidly, eventually changing from a group of small and loosely connected fishing and agricultural villages into a fast-growing suburb at the turn of the 20th century.

From 1780 until 1875 the Rio Grande Valley was subject to frequent raids by both the Apache and the Navajo tribes, compelling the settlers to build a series of plazas there, which were much more defensible to these attacks.

His views were more particularly expressed in England and Russia in the East ( 1875 ).

In 1875, the form of writ was altered so that it conformed more to the subpoena that had been in use in the Chancery.

In the meantime Charles Stewart Parnell had joined the League, with more radical ideas than most of the incumbent Home Rulers, and was elected to Parliament in a by-election in County Meath in 1875.

In 1875, he had undertaken to compile a new Latin lexicon for the Clarendon Press, but the work proved more than he could accomplish, and in 1887 he published some of the results of twelve years ' labour in a volume entitled Contributions to Latin Lexicography, a genuine piece of original work.